Student User Guide

Hello and congratulations on choosing to study with Courses For Success!

The skills and knowledge contained in our courses will help you develop your personal and professional skills, improve your self-confidence and prepare you for future career opportunities.

We have created this user guide to introduce you to the Courses For Success student user system and it covers everything from logging in for the first time to navigating through your course material.

As a Career Builder Library member, it's a good time to have a look at the five core components or "the five pillars" of your library, to get the most out of your membership you should invest your time exploring these concepts as they will help you establish career goals, once these are established you can then focus your attention on the training courses that will help you achieve them.

The Five Pillars of The Career Builder Library

Career Builder - Career Planner

Comprehensive career planner, this will help you plan your career advancement, set learning goals and track your achievements as you go on your journey to a bigger and better future.

Free Personal Success Course

The first thing we recommend to all new students starting off on their career development journey is to complete the Free Create Personal Success Course, normally priced at $199 on our website this course has been included as an added bonus to help keep you motivated to work through YourCareerPro to obtain the skills you need to achieve personal success.

This careers and motivation course is provided absolutely free and will keep you focused to achieve your goals.

Powerful Soft Skills and Microsoft Courses

At the core of The Career Builder Library are the courses, there are currently over 150 courses to choose from that you can now freely access once you have logged in. Our powerful, yet easy to use online management system allows you to keep track of courses you have completed, search for courses of interest, and open multiple courses and more. These courses are internationally recognized and accredited by the International Association of Online Training Standards (IAOTS).

Resume and Cover Letter Templates

Once you've got a few courses under your belt, it's time to revisit your resume, our selection of resumes templates and cover letter samples will give you a great resource to call upon when you're looking for work, ready for a change of career or face unexpected unemployment. Please note, to download these resume and cover letter templates you must be one of our annual members, find out more on our Career Builder Library page.

Career Resources

Finally for further knowledge we have prepared a great collection of career resources, tips and information including top picks from our blog and exclusive content for Library members such as career planning and more written by industry experts.

These five pillars are your guideposts to achieving success with The Career Builder Library, this information will be invaluable on your career development journey, and with new courses, tools, resources and more being added every month there's always going to be more than enough content to give your Career a big boost.

Logging In and Getting Started

The first step is to login to your classroom, the login information will be located in your "Welcome Aboard!" email, if you have any issues retrieving it please don’t hesitate to contact us.

The gateway to your training material is the course login page, when you will arrive you will be greeted with the following screen:

On this screen enter your email address (which you used in the sign up or purschase process) followed by the password provided to you in your welcome email.

Forgot your password or lost your welcome email? simply use the "forgot password" link and enter your details and the system will send you an email with instructions on how to reset your password.

The Your Classroom View

Once you have logged in, you will arrive at your classroom, your classroom is the central point that you access any training material located in your account including your course (if you've only signed up to one course) and career resources if you're a member of the Career Builder Library.

Lets explore the interface in more detail..

At the top right you will see the name you signed up with or email address this is where you manage your account, here you can click the arrow to reveal a drop down menu allowing you to change your password, or log out after you've completed a study session.

Below you will see a search box, and a drop down enabling you to configure how many courses you would like displayed on each page, this search box allows you to easily find any courses in either the career builder library or in your bundle by name.

| Try a search for Personal Success! this course will give you a great headstart on your career journey and will introduce you to some great personal and professional development concepts. |

Please note, if you are having trouble finding a particular course please view the Completed tab, sometimes you might skip through chapters or want to reattempt a course at a later date and it may have been moved here however you can reattempt it at anytime.

The My Group section on the left will list any and all groups in your account, if you have two course bundles (for example a microsoft bundle and a photography bundle) you can use these groups to filter your course view to only display the courses in that group.

Each course has a few bits of information including the Course title, type (all items are listed as course) action (where you elect to start or resume a course) date (the date the course was updated in the system) and group (the group that course belongs to)

If you've already started a course it will also show you the % of the course you have completed underneath the resume button.

Accessing a course

All you need to do to get started now is find the course you would like to start first, then click the "Start" button, this will load your course in a new window ready for training to begin.

Lets take a look at the insides of a course and what's involved.

Course Welcome Screen

When you first start a course you will be greeted with the welcome screen, this will give you some information on how to get the most out of your course and provide a bit of information on Courses For Success, to move forward simply hit the Start button to begin.

Getting Started

Once you hit the start button you will arrive at the getting started page of your course, this section will give you a run down of the objectives and introduce you to your course, lets use this page to explain how a course is studied.

At the top right you will see your name and a button to log out of your course in addition to previous and next buttons, these arrows allow you to move through each page and chapter of your course.

The menu on the left shows you the total progress you have made on the course in addition to the title of each section or module, you can click on any section here to jump to it, once you have opened a section a link will appear to the module review questions for that section, these optional questions allow you to test your understanding of that module and can be skipped if you would prefer to focus on the final assessment.

The Assessment and Certificate section of your course is the final test of your course knowledge, included in this section is a course feedback form that allows you to leave a review of your experience with that particular course, we read and take on board all feedback submitted through this area, we've made a lot of great updates based on customer feedback and look forward to hearing your experiences.

Career Resources

If you're a Career Builder Library member, in your account you will find the Career Resource Center, this section functions the same as a course however is used to organize your career resources into an easy to use system that you will be familiar with from studying your training courses.

Please note, the Career Resources listed below are part of The Career Builder Library Annual Membership, if you would like to download these files you will need to be a yearly member, to find out more visit out Career Builder page.

Career Resource Centre

The Career Builder - Career Resource Centre is where we have organized the career resource components of The Career Builder Library, this includes the Career Planner, resume and cover letter templates and top picks from the CFS Careers Blog. Let's explore the three sections of the Career Resource Centre.

1. Career Planner

Section one is the Career Planner, here you can download your workbook and the supplementary worksheets. Each of these documents features two versions, one including lines to be printed off and hand written and one without lines that you can simply open in word and work on straight from your PC.

2. Resume and Cover Letter Templates

This section includes a range of resume and cover letter templates that you are free to use as a foundation in your job applications, each template includes handy tips and tricks on what to include in your resume and features several different coloured designs.Feel free to edit these templates to your hearts content, change the images, colours or more! We'll be adding new resume and cover letter templates every month, and if you have any suggestions or requests feel free to email us at email/feedback)(coursesforsuccess.com and we'll see what we can do for you!

3. Career Tips and Information

Finally, the career tips section is all about giving you inspiration and fresh ideas and includes a great collection of career resources, tips and information including top picks from our blog and more written by industry experts. These are organised into PDF files for you to download or print whenever you're looking for the next great idea. There will be new Top Picks every month including exclusive careers articles and more so check back whenever you're looking for something new!

F.A.Q

I’ve finished a course, and I'd like to go back and try it again

If at any point you would like to retake a course you have already studied, simply click on the “completed tab” at the top right hand corner of the screen to access your completed courses list!

Please use the navigation buttons at the top of this page and locate the product you have purchased and view it's "Units of Study" tab on the product page to learn more about what courses or modules are available.

Courses Available

Wondering what courses are available in the Career Builder Library?

The Career Builder Library is packed full of over 150 career-skills training courses covering everything you need to build a successful career including administrative skills, supervision and management, human resources, personal development, sales and marketing, workplace essentials, Microsoft and much more. You will also receive access to new courses as they are added to the library each month if you're a library member.

Select any category below to find out more and see the courses included.

Soft Skills Courses

Administration and Bookkeeping (8+ Courses)

Studying Administration Skills Courses has never been easier, our courses suit all levels of experience, equip yourself with the skills you need to become an administration professional. With the confidence, skills and knowledge you gain from studying an administration skills online course you can get ahead of the competition when looking for work, or even have the confidence to push for a raise or higher position in your current business! Delivered online via our unique online portal these courses are interactive enabling you to complete them quickly and easily, study after work or on weekends on the go!

Career Development (15+ Courses)

Career development courses are the perfect way to make big changes in your professional life. Equipped with the skills, knowledge, and confidence that you gain from a career development course will get you into prime position to negotiate a wage increase, discover and capitalize on new job opportunities and move up in the business world.

Human Resources (16+ Courses)

As long as people are being employed in the workforce, the field of Human Resource Management will always be present and in demand. Human resource managers deal with all aspects of employee management, performance, policies and systems in businesses and organisations. These super people managers are able to handle a multitude of activities, such as recruiting, training, development, performance appraisals, payment systems and other reward or benefits systems. HR departments also generally deal with industrial relations and government laws. All this and more are included in your membership.

Personal Development (12+ Courses)

Personal development involves undertaking activities and actions that improve your sense of self. Undertaking some personal development courses will deliver positive outcomes for you, professionally, socially and importantly within your own perception of yourself. You can take positive steps to improve yourself by taking any of the Personal development course included in YourCareerPro.

Sales And Marketing (11+ Courses)

Sales and marketing are the key components of running a business. If you don’t have marketing skills and a marketing plan, you will never make any sales. Conversely, if you don’t have good selling skills your marketing plan will be wasted. The two skills are closely related and if you are in the retail business or running your own business, you need to develop these skills and the Career Builder puts these skills only a few clicks away.

Specialty Courses (7+ Courses)

These specialty courses have been included to provide you with new opportunities to grow your career, learn a new hobby or even start your own business at home! Skills included in courses such as in the events planning and photography courses can even transfer across into your current career by adding new and exciting tools to your skill set.

Workplace Essentials (16+ Courses)

The workplace requires essential skills to get the most out of your career and your work colleagues potential. Business ethics, business acumen, business etiquette, business civility, managing change, conflict resolution, delivering constructive criticism, health and safety, risk assessment, workplace diversity, workplace harassment. The list seems to be never ending. How on earth are you meant to keep on top of all that and where can you learn these skills? right here in the Career Builder Online Course Library.

Microsoft Courses

Microsoft Access (5+ Courses)

Access is the world’s premier database software. You can use Access to create and edit databases or just download a ready-made database template and start typing. It’s that easy. You can create a database of contacts, expenses, household and/or business inventory. In other words, if you have data that you want to get more out of access is the best way to store and organise it.

Microsoft Excel (6+ Courses)

Excel is the world’s premier spreadsheet software, it enables you to easily analyse numbers, keep track of data, and graphically represent your information. These Excel courses will make your job easier by teaching you to use the interface and take advantage of the array of powerful tools excel contains that will help you turn your data into useable information. Better information leads to better decision making!

Microsoft Word (6+ Courses)

Word is a powerful word processing application however it does much more than create simple documents by studying these courses you will learn to not only create more professional and well designed documents but also work more efficiently with words more advanced and powerful features.

Microsoft PowerPoint (6+ Courses)

PowerPoint is a powerful software application built for the presentation of visual and graphical items either to get your point across in a meeting or create a great sales package to email through to clients. You can do everything from creating simple handouts to developing an animated presentation with audio all in this powerful package and the courses included in this section of the library are the best way to get more out of your presentations.

Microsoft Publisher (3+ Courses)

Publisher is a flexible and powerful desktop publishing and authoring tool. It goes well beyond what you can produce with word processing software like MS Word. These course will help you learn to produce high-quality publications for both personal and business use and cover everything from the basics to the advanced features that will bring your documentation up to a professional standard.

Microsoft Outlook (6+ Courses)

Outlook 2010 is a powerful e-mail application. However, it does much more than that to help you stay organized. With contacts, calendars, and tasks these courses will help you to use Outlook to manage every aspect of your life, improve your productivity and much more.

Microsoft OneNote (4+ Courses)

OneNote allows you to track appointments, take meeting notes, record research, and keep to-do items all in one place and features an intuitive user interface with an array of powerful tools to help you manage your data through Skydrive and more. By mastering OneNotes powerful feature set you will find yourself being able to keep better track of Notes you take, track and meet deadlines and generally get more done in less time.

Microsoft Outlook (6+ Courses)

Outlook helps you manage your busy life through its calendar and social connectors. These comprehensive Outlook courses will enable you to increase your productivity and be able to manage your information more efficiently!